2 Corinthians 5:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.

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  • Heb 11:13 : 13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 But our conuersation is in heauen, from whence also we looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Iesus Christ, 21 Who shall change our vile bodie, that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body, according to the working, whereby hee is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe.
  • Heb 10:35 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders which are among you, I beseech which am also an elder, and a witnesse of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe reueiled,
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I Iohn, euen your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ, was in the yle called Patmos, for the worde of God, & for the witnessing of Iesus Christ.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Ps 27:3-4 : 3 Though an hoste pitched against me, mine heart should not be afraide: though warre be raised against me, I will trust in this. 4 One thing haue I desired of the Lorde, that I will require, euen that I may dwell in the house of the Lorde all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautie of the Lorde, and to visite his Temple.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
  • Prov 14:26 : 26 In the feare of the Lorde is an assured strength, and his children shall haue hope.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus sayd the Lorde God, the Holy one of Israel, In rest and quietnes shall ye be saued: in quietnes and in confidence shall be your strength, but ye would not.
  • Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell you Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus sayth the great King, the King of Asshur, What confidence is this, wherein thou trustest?
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

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    7 (For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)

    8 Neuerthelesse, we are bolde, and loue rather to remoue out of the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

    9 Wherefore also we couet, that both dwelling at home, and remouing from home, we may be acceptable to him.

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    1 For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.

    2 For therefore we sighe, desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heauen.

    3 Because that if we be clothed, we shal not be found naked.

    4 For in deede we that are in this tabernacle, sigh and are burdened, because we would not be vnclothed, but would be clothed vpon, that mortalitie might be swalowed vp of life.

    5 And he that hath created vs for this thing, is God, who also hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of the Spirit.

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    11 Let such one thinke this, that such as wee are in woorde by letters, when we are absent, such wil we be also in deede, when we are present.

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    11 Knowing therefore that terrour of the Lord, we persuade men, and we are made manifest vnto God, and I trust also that we are made manifest in your consciences.

    12 For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

    13 For whether we be out of our wit, we are it to God: or whether we be in our right minde, we are it vnto you.

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    5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, reioycing & beholding your order, and your stedfast faith in Christ.

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    7 But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of that power might be of God, and not of vs.

    8 Wee are afflicted on euery side, yet are we not in distresse: we are in doubt, but yet wee despaire not.

    9 We are persecuted, but not forsaken: cast downe, but we perish not.

    10 Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies.

    11 For we which liue, are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

    12 So then death worketh in vs, & life in you.

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    3 For I verely as absent in bodie, but present in spirit, haue determined already as though I were present, that he that hath thus done this thing,

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    16 Therefore we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

    17 For our light affliction which is but for a moment, causeth vnto vs a farre most excellent and an eternall waight of glorie:

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    2 And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.

    3 Neuerthelesse, though wee walke in the flesh, yet we doe not warre after the flesh.

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    6 But now lately when Timotheus came fro you vnto vs, and brought vs good tidings of your faith and loue, & that ye haue good remembrance of vs alwayes, desiring to see vs, as we also do you,

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    16 I reioyce therefore that I may put my confidence in you in all things.

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